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Kate's husband Derek Draper has been in ICU for seven weeks (Image: Mirrorpix)

Clive had been told to "prepare for the worst" by doctors, who feared that Jo wouldn't be able to recover.

Despite the odds, Jo survived and the couple spoke to Piers and Susanna Reid on the ITV programme.

Piers told them that stories like theirs gave real hope to Kate, whose husband was taken to hospital on March 30th.

Clive was told he should 'prepare for the worst' regarding his wife Jo (Image: ITV)

Kate has said that Derek is 'fighting for his life' (Image: WireImage)

He said: "One of my colleagues, Kate Garraway, her husband has been very critically ill for a long period of time now and these sort of stories, I have to say, think give Kate huge hope when she hears and sees them.

"Because she was in the very same position that Clive was in, you can't see your loved one. You just have to muddle through, I guess."

Last week, Kate shared her absolute delight to FaceTime her husband as he remained in hospital.

Kate's son plays with lego in the clip accompanying her heartwarming update last week (Image: Instagram)

Her son William could be seen playing with lego in the video which accompanied Kate's heartwarming update.

She shared her joy at her love and hoping he could "hear" her family.

In her lengthy message, she wrote: "So our #nhsclap was a little different tonight. We still clapped & cheered as much as ever but I couldn’t film on my phone as had Derek on FaceTime throughout! - ofcourse we can’t KNOW but I believe he can hear us & thought at least the incredible @nhs team’s looking after him would hear a fraction of our gratitude. "